Activities at Lynde House Care Home
Our Activities Coordinators get a real buzz off their work here as enthusiasm is essential for the role. We decorate and celebrate for all the big annual events, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mothering Sunday and much more. There are also regular fixtures in our activities programme, including bingo, a sherry morning and quizzes, that are always well-attended. There's also an International Day that we hold to celebrate the wonderful ethnic diversity of our staff, where members of our team and their families give up their time to showcase their national costumes, dances and songs. Of course, we also have activities and services tailored to those residents who prefer the quiet life, such manicures or simply a friendly chat and a cup of tea. We always do our best to learn about residents' hobbies and interests and try to arrange our activities programme around their individual likes and dislikes.
Gitana Norvaisiene
Gitana Norvaisiene is our Life Enrichment Coordinator. She oversees and organises all social activities within the home. Although Gitana only recently took up the Coordinators role she was previously a carer at Lynde House. Within her first year she was honoured with being shortlisted at the National Barchester Awards in the category of Activities Coordinator of the year and also won with her team of residents and local school pupils the Barchester In Bloom best Flower display
Read our brochure 'Life-enriching activities' for more information about life in our care homes.
Read our brochure
Activities and Events Partnerships
As part of our bespoke life-enrichment programmes, we host a number of live virtual events in the home on a regular basis through a number of partnerships with places of interest and world class performance companies
Life at Lynde House Care Home
Mother's Day
Beautiful smiles today from residents as they received flowers from the Lynde House team in addition to cards and gifts from their families, we all enjoyed a delicious lunch prepared by Andrew and his team, everyone felt special today!
Nursery children visit residents on Zoom!
Smiles and laughter on our zoom visit by the nursery on the new bigger screen which can be wheeled around the home, we will be able to share even more activities and events with residents who prefer room based life enrichment! The children are delightful and we are looking forward to getting to know them over coming weeks, special thank you to Polly van Marken from Brighter Together intergenerational project for inviting us to take part and all her support.
Feeding our garden birds!
It was a team effort as residents filled their bird feeders for our feathered friends, we want to make sure they are well fed before nesting starts.
Introducing Valencia - Our Therapy Assistant
We are delighted to introduce Valencia Afonso who joined the Lynde House team in 2019, qualified as a Physiotherapist in India she is working with our residents as Therapy Assistant under the guidance of Lee Remedios from West Thames Physiotheraphy. In addition to the twice weekly armchair exercise sessions for small groups of residents Valencia makes room visits for one-to-one support if residents want or need more private help. Comments from residents who have seen the benefit of Valencia’s care include an increase in stamina which can maintain or improve mobility, together with greater confidence in moving safely when there is a fear of falling.
If you would like to discuss the benefits of Valencia’s support for our residents and how we can help you, a loved one or friend please give us a call on 020 8892 4772
Shrove Tuesday Supper!
We are celebrating Shrove Tuesday with pancakes for supper tonight - choose your favourite toppings from the traditional to fresh fruit, toffee sauce and cream, absolutely delicious
We raised £204 in our hamper raffle!
We raised £204.00 with our hamper raffle for Age UK Richmond Upon Thames, the charity chosen by residents who wanted to support their efforts in the local community. Jo kindly held the cheque to demonstrate the amount however we made the actual donation online! Thank you to all our friends, relatives and staff who bought tickets
